President Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at boosting coal are getting a warm embrace in West Virginia. But there's ...

West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

Perhaps the most well-known destination in West Virginia, Harpers Ferry is more than a quaint 19th-century town ... family-operated coal mine and camp from roughly 1890 to 1910 that later became ...

West Virginia also played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution with the development of bituminous coal, a cheaper alternative to wood. Located in the Appalachian region, West Virginia has ...

West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...